Excerpt: Its so easy to be discouraged. Every one of you lives to proclaim a message so deeply at odds with the accepted wisdom of our day which blasts forth from every television network, every respected newspaper or magazine, every public school, everything that influences the thought-patterns and values of every citizen twenty-four hours a day–whether that supposed wisdom wears the label of secular humanism or democratic liberalism or, more accurately, of atheistic naturalism. And its easy to grow weary of the constant battle against this false teaching and to get tired of facing the ridicule of a society in which the pastor is no longer the parson, i.e., the person, the most respected person in the community, but rather is viewed as a fool or a clown to be either laughed at or ignored. Elder in the church of Jesus Christ, it is to you that the inspired word of II Timothy 2:8 comes. It is spoken directly to you by the Holy Spirit as a word of encouragement, the kind of encouragement you need when you feel you simply cant go on, the kind of encouragement you need in the morning when you wonder if you can get out of bed to face the day because everything youre scheduled to do that day seems pointless, so totally in vain–whether your study, or your counseling, or your preaching, or whatever–when the words in vain seem to you to be written over your whole ministry and your whole life! When you know that mere positive thinking, or possibility thinking, isnt going to cut it for you! And what is that word that comes to you in your deep need? Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descended from David.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:07:03 +0000
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